Peter E. Greulich's Political Articles
Date Published: June 9, 2021
​Date Modified: July 12, 2025
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Political Thoughts and Lessons from History
Definition of Witticism: ​A cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark. Synonyms within the context of this page include: wise crack, one-liner, maxim, saying, proverb or adage.

Read Mark Twain aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
In the next two elections vote with your deepest of spiritual values based on a singular, spiritual rule: elect those who treat you--and your neighbors, as they would want to be treated.

​In the United States we most commonly refer to this as the Golden Rule. So, let’s envision “The 2029 State of the Union."
If we can envision the future with the right character of individuals in it . . . just maybe, we can bring it to pass.
Humility in a leader summons forth one of humanity’s most priceless of treasures—new opinions and ideas. Humility has been recognized as a hallmark of great leadership through the ages. …

But it is also a hallmark of great followers.
In July 1903, the McClure’s Magazine editorial staff published this article on “Patriotism.” Although it is now over a century old, it should sound alarm bells for many of us in this election year of 2024.

Read this article on "Patriotism". Apply it today!
February 19, 2024 is Presidents’ Day.

This is an opinion piece written by a Vietnam-era veteran. It is an assessment of how one President’s opinion expressed in 1911—fifty years after the Civil War, if it was read and studied by Abraham Lincoln, might teach us tolerance today.
Tolerance in how we are addressing our attitudes towards our deceased Civil War veterans—the veterans of both the North and South. 
​​I am classified as a Vietnam-era vet. ​Intellectually, I know I served during this time. I volunteered. I could have ended up there, but I hold in the deepest respect those who were on the front lines.
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​They are the true veterans of the Vietnam era.
​For more than two hundred years, men and women have known that this was an imperfect country, but they have sacrificed to preserve it anyway. One President, knowing full well how imperfect his country was, gave his life for it.

This is why I stand for the national anthem.
The United States of America is in a soul-searching predicament. Our debate over building a physical barrier along our southern border is exposing a long-term, inward-looking, identity crisis.

Is the Statue of Liberty facing the right direction?
"I happened to be in Washington. General Grant was sitting in the lobby. An aide rushed in and whispered something to him. The General–obviously agitated–ran out, jumped on his horse, and galloped away!"

A great general stands for honor and integrity.
During Covid, I traveled from Texas to Washington State and returned. It wasn’t because I wanted to. It was because, as a human being, I had to. Thankfully, unlike China, the United States of America gave me a choice.

It was good to see it is still the country I grew up in!
Normally my book reviews are with all my bibliographical information. But after reading all the recent negative discourse on Woodrow Wilson recently, I decided to let the man speak for himself.

An amazing book written by a wonderful man.
This author believes that a majority of American history can be viewed as the struggle between what Teddy Roosevelt labels as “absolute socialism” and “absolute individualism.” As Americans we pride ourselves on finding the middle ground between two extremes.

Do we need to find the balance again?
How can you and I be sure that "Un-American" should not at times be applied to us—that we ourselves are really thinking in the American way, living in the American way, actually being American in our personal lives?
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Do we need to find the balance here too?
“Those who believed that woman suffrage would bring about the “political millennium” have been disappointed. …

​"Those who claimed that women could not take any part in active political work have to admit that they were mistaken.​ …
​“The truth seems to lie midway between these two extremes. ”
I read this book after reading the contrasting positions on slavery between our Vice-President, Kamala Harris, and Florida’s Governor, Ron DeSantis. The disagreement involves if American blacks—males and females, might be better off today, even after suffering the terrible indignations of slavery before the Civil War.​
I do not like having politicians, with their political agendas, controlling my thoughts so I decided to read a book about the conditions in the major slave-trading ports of Africa in the immediate, post-Civil War timeframes: 1876–1915.
Some university professors make lasting impressions on students over the course of a semester. Walt Rostow made his mark on me in less than fifteen minutes as he kicked off my Economics 101 class at the University of Texas in Austin.
I wish he could deliver the same message to a joint session of Congress that he delivered this day to a bunch of supposedly eager, sometimes energized, and occasionally enthusiastic college kids. . . . Then again, maybe he can.
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Through me.
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